Election preview: Ecuador

Ecuador's leftist president is respecting term limits and bowing out. Change is on the way, which may not be good news for Julian Assange.

Election previews: Macedonia and Romania

Two almost-neighboring countries in south-eastern Europe go to the polls tonight, in the last major elections of 2016.

Hillary Clinton's victory keeps getting bigger in terms of votes. But America seems stuck with a system where votes don't matter.

Not only did Hillary Clinton clearly win the popular vote, her margin is still growing. That marks a problem that America really needs to address.

Donald Trump's victory comes courtesy of the electoral system, not the voters' choice. And that's not something unusual.

Russia's Vladimir Putin secures, unsurprisingly, a large parliamentary majority, but courtesy of the electoral system as much as public opinion.

Spain's politicians continue their comprehensive failure to work with the parliament that voters have given them.

The Senate will again reflect the variety of Australians' political loyalties rather well. The House of Representatives, rather less so.

Decisions on voting rights provide further evidence for the centrality of race to the Republican identity.

A roundup of election news from Austria, the United States, Mongolia and Australia.